Finance Quetta

It was the intention to provide in each of the District Profiles a comprehensive overview of the flows of public funds within and in and out of the districts. Given the time constraints, such an overview did not prove to be possible. The figures collected were fragmentary. For Quetta district this exercise was all the more complicated because of the many institutions involved with collection of revenue and with public expenditures (see also paragraph 4.6). Some revenue figures can be found in the table below.

Income In Pak.Rps	91/92	92/93	93/94	1994/95		1995/96		1996/97
	A	A	A	A	E	A	E		A	E
Federal Govt.
Provincial Govt.
Agr. Cess			812,943	1,434,994		1,399,429
Livestock cess			1,654,548	2,037,399		2,058,467
Local Licenses			740,500	209,500		505,520
Local Fees			19,680	200		160
Property tax			65,389	94,004		85,383
Land tax			257,303	244,487		93,879
District Council			39,575,161	22,589,630		8,171,000
Octroi			523,100	1,414,500
Sanitation Fee
Union Council
Other

Total

Although a complete picture is missing, it is clear that the expenditures in the district exceed the revenue collected in the district. This means for instance that the district is dependent on outside assistance for for a large part of its funds for development.

As stated above, the funds for further social and economic development in the district can for a large part not be collected in the district itself. Transfers from other forms of government are necessary. The most important source is the provincial Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP). The PSDP is essentially financed by money from the provincial development budget and by contributions from donor agencies. The Planning and Development Department each year compiles the PSDP; then the PSDP has to be approved by the government and the Provincial Assembly.

The revised PSDP for the financial year 1995-95 shows allocations for 81 projects in Quetta district for a total of Rs. 490.232 million, including a foreign assistance component of Rs. 51.141 million. In the next PSDP, for the year 1996-97, the number of schemes dropped to 50, but the overall allocation increased to Rs. 541.196 million, with a foreign component of Rs. 67.462 million.

The combined allocation in the PSDP for the current year, 1997-98, amounts to Rs. 540.433 million for 62 projects, with donor assistance worth Rs. 175.195 million. The amount earmarked for schemes in Quetta district is about 9% of the PSDP amount for the whole of Balochistan.

The combined SAP sectors (Public Health Engineering, primary education and primary health) would receive 28% and the non-SAP sectors 72% of the allocation. The biggest sectors are PHE with Rs. 97.100 million, non-SAP health with Rs. 83.000 million, Physical Planning and Housing with Rs. 68.243 million, Quetta Development Authority with Rs. 52.995 million, WASA with Rs. 47.500 million and agriculture with Rs. 40.804 million.

It is as yet not sure whether the provincial government will succeed in obtaining the required funds to finance the whole PSDP

for 1997-98 as presented above. The allocations mentioned should therefore be treated as provisional.